Monday, November 11, 2013

How to view, edit and delete cookies without CookieSpy

Hi there! In this quite a long blog post I will describe how you could manage cookies with help of build in tools of browser’s itself. I will cover all the browsers that are supported by CookieSpy. By the way, the images are clickable so click on them to see better.

Internet Explorer

Let’s start form the most popular web browser in the word . Internet Explorer has very limited abilities to manage cookies. There is no ability to view and edit cookies or delete a specific cookie. You can delete all cookies only but half a load is better then nothing.

Google Chrome has the advanced means for managing cookies. You can search for cookies, view and delete specific cookie and remove all cookies with click of a button but there is no ability to edit a cookie.

4. The “Content Settings” box will appear. Click on “All cookies and site data” button

5. The “Cookies and site data” box display cookies grouped by web site name (by domain in terms of CookieSpy). In order to view cookies for a web site click on the row for the web site.

To view details of a cookie click on the cookie name box

Firefox (Mozilla SeaMonkey, Pale Moon)

Firefox along side with Google Chrome has very good tools for managing cookies. You can search for and view cookies. Delete specific cookie or all at once but as a common practice there is no ability to edit cookies data.

3. “Cookie Manager” box will appear. Cookies are grouped by web site name (domain). if one expand a node for a web site the site’s cookies are shown. In order to view and edit properties of a cookie select it and press on “Edit…” button.

Maxthon

Maxthon similar to Internet Explorer has very poor tools to manage cookies. You can only delete all cookies for all web sites with build in tools of the browser.